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...former president may have tried humor with the unimpressed Scottish judge, but the charges against him are as serious as they get: genocide, persecution and extermination for being what prosecutors call the "mastermind" behind a large-scale ethnic cleansing campaign to expel non-Serbs from huge parts of Bosnia during the war in the early 1990s. He is charged with setting up notoriously brutal detention camps like Omarska, the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, when some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were executed over the course of five days. As Supreme Commander, say prosecutors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Not Guilty" Plea Entered for Karadzic | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

...current law also says that the Secretary has the power to determine that keeping a gay service member is "in the best interest of the armed forces." Obama could instruct the Pentagon that, as a general matter, it is never "in the best interest of the armed forces" to expel a service member solely for saying he is gay or bisexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revisiting 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

Suspicions of a state raid on BP's Russian assets aren't surprising. Relations between the countries, already chilled by Britain's refusal to expel various critics of Russia's government, have been in a deep freeze since the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Still, in the case of TNK-BP, it's hard to make out a government agenda. The squabble over work permits was at least partially resolved once it became public, and suspicions of tax evasion stem from the years prior to BP's involvement. Resolving the conflict, Medvedev has said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Fine Mess in the Oil Business | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

...junta still plans to hold a referendum on its new constitution on May 10, a move that is expected to legally legitimize military rule. Authorities have even promised to expel cyclone victims sheltering in a school in northern Rangoon so that it can be used as a polling station, claims a Western aid agency. Meanwhile, foreign embassies have received formal invitations to observe the proceedings, "probably to distract us from the lack of a relief effort," observes the Western diplomat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aid Not Reaching Burmese | 5/9/2008 | See Source »

...both wings of the party. As Labor spokesman for education, he opposes private schools and wants universities open to all without competitive exams. Nonetheless, Kinnock may have a tough battle for the top spot: he is already on the hit list of party radicals angered by his vote to expel the Militant Tendency from the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thatcher Triumphant | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

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